One of Team USA’s biggest starts will take on Sunday giant slalom Sunday as Mikaela Shiffrin takes another shot at an Olympic medal at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.
The first giant slalom run on Sunday takes place at 3 a.m., and the second run determining medals starts at 6:30 a.m.
You can watch Shiffrin and the other giant slalom competitors on Sunday in the player below or stream the event on Peacock.
Shiffrin is set to race third in the first run, behind Norway’s Thea Louise Stjernesund and Sweden’s Sara Hector.
A complete list look at the start list for giant slalom on Sunday is available here.
Shiffrin will be competing to make a return to the Olympic podium for giant slalom for the first time since 2018 when she won gold at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.
Medals will also be awarded in biathlon, cross-country skiing, freestyle skiing, skeleton, snowboarding, ski jumping and speed skating on Day 9 of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.
In a post on Instagram Saturday, Mikaela Shiffrin said after being seriously injured in a nasty fall in giant slalom at Killington, Vermont,
Shiffrin suffered a deep puncture wound to her abdomen in Killington and only returned to the podium in GS in her final race weekend before these Games less than two weeks ago.
“Heading into tomorrow’s GS (bib 3, because I’m back in the top 7 in the world!!), I have an overwhelming sense of gratitude that I simply get to be here, after everything. I’m proud of how far I’ve come,” Shiffrin wrote in the Instagram post. “A little over a year ago—following my injury in Killington—I couldn’t even imagine skiing giant slalom at this level again, let alone starting in the discipline at the Olympics.”
Giant slalom also offers Shiffrin an opportunity for Shiffrin, the most decorated World Cup racer of all time with a record 108 victories, to make a comeback from her fourth-place finish in the women’s combined on Tuesday.
Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin finished fourth in the women’s team combined race at the Milan Cortina Olympics but were happy for U.S. teammates Paula Moltzan and Jackie Wiles who won bronze.
While giant slalom is not Shiffrin’s strongest event — that’s the slalom, which is scheduled for Wednesday — she was a solid third at a World Cup event in Czechia three weeks ago, her first podium in GS in over a year.
“We’ve taken the lessons (from women’s combined), adjusted and analyzed, and we are moving forward — with focus, attention and belief in the practice,” Shiffrin wrote in a post on Instagram.
A Milan Cortina medal would end an Olympic podium drought for Shiffrin, who has gone seven straight Olympic races without a medal.
After taking two golds and a silver from her first two Olympics, the four-time Olympian didn’t win a medal in any of her six races at the Beijing Games four years ago.
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